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Jazyk a identita etnických menšin: možnosti zachování a revitalizace [Language and Identity of Ethnic Minorities: The Possibilities for Maintenance and Revitalization] (review)

Jazyk a identita etnických menÅ¡in: možnosti zachování a revitalizace [Language and Identity... 2009 BOOK REVIEWS 187 obviously chosen because marked-nominative systems are found in a range of African languages in northeast and east Africa, though they are extremely rare worldwide. The last chapter, however, is somewhat different. Verb-final structures, of course, occur throughout the world and the topic does not strictly concern areal linguistics, but rather demonstrates how areal forces may have interacted in shaping syntactic patterns in African languages. In this chapter (pp. 272—308), Dimmendaal also shows how some of the assumptions made for the syntax of subject-object-verb languages generally need revising, most notably the typology of clause combining and the distinction between coordination and subordination. As always with a volume comprising separate chapters written by multiple authors, chapters differ to some degree in presentation and, to a small degree, in their conclu- sions. There is also necessarily some degree of repetition, at least insofar as the same features are treated in more than one chapter with cross-referencing, for instance, between the thematic and the regional chapters. The arguments are throughout amply illustrated by tables and fully glossed examples drawn from a large number of languages. The validity of the discussion, of course, depends on the illustrative data, and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

Jazyk a identita etnických menšin: možnosti zachování a revitalizace [Language and Identity of Ethnic Minorities: The Possibilities for Maintenance and Revitalization] (review)

Salzmann, Zdeněk
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 51 (2) – Jul 14, 2010
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2009 BOOK REVIEWS 187 obviously chosen because marked-nominative systems are found in a range of African languages in northeast and east Africa, though they are extremely rare worldwide. The last chapter, however, is somewhat different. Verb-final structures, of course, occur throughout the world and the topic does not strictly concern areal linguistics, but rather demonstrates how areal forces may have interacted in shaping syntactic patterns in African languages. In this chapter (pp. 272—308), Dimmendaal also shows how some of the assumptions made for the syntax of subject-object-verb languages generally need revising, most notably the typology of clause combining and the distinction between coordination and subordination. As always with a volume comprising separate chapters written by multiple authors, chapters differ to some degree in presentation and, to a small degree, in their conclu- sions. There is also necessarily some degree of repetition, at least insofar as the same features are treated in more than one chapter with cross-referencing, for instance, between the thematic and the regional chapters. The arguments are throughout amply illustrated by tables and fully glossed examples drawn from a large number of languages. The validity of the discussion, of course, depends on the illustrative data, and the

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Published: Jul 14, 2010

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